Blog Inn

Blog Inn is child theme of Blog Way. It is a minimalistic WordPress theme dedicated to blogs. Blog Inn provides a responsive layout with unlimited colors. It allows you to change the way you introduce posts for pictures and texts for an appealing look. It is modern, clean, colorful and responsive. Blog Inn supports Woo-Commerce and can be used for perfect e-Commerce sites too.

Theme Installation

From WordPress Dashboard

• Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
• Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
• Click Add New.
• Upload the Zip file of Blog Inn
• After Installing the theme Click Activate button

FTP Installation (alternate method)

• Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
• Extract blog-inn.zip and upload the folder.
• Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
• Click the Activate link.

Demo Data Installation

• Go to the Admin Panel > Appearance > About Business Inn.
• Click Recommendation Actions tab.
• Click install Team View and One Click Demo Import plugin and activate them.
• Go to the Appearance > Import Demo Data.
• Click Import Demo Data button and wait until data is imported.

Customization Options

Go to the Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize

Logo, Site Title & Tagline

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
• You can change Logo, Site Title, Tagline and Site Icon (Favicon) from this option.
• This theme has 3 options to display logo, title and tagline.
• Click Save & Publish to save the changes.

Colors

• You can easily change background color of the site.
• Go to Appearance > Customize > Colors
• Change the color as your need.
• Click Save & Publish to save the changes.

Header Image

This option can be use to change the background image of logo and tag line section.

Background Image

You can easily change the background image of the site.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Background Image
• Upload or select image from media library to change background image.
• Click Save & Publish to save the changes.

Advance Color Options

• You can easily change the color of each section, body, header, footer, headings, texts, etc of site.
• Go to Appearance > Customize > Advance Color Options
• Change the color as your need.
• If you like to reset colors to themes default color, go to Reset Colors options and reset it in one click.
• Click Save & Publish to save the changes.

Theme Options

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options. This section includes Header Options, Post Options, Footer Options and Scroll Up Options.

Header Options

From this section, you can enable or disable sticky header and show or hide overlay of the main banner.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Header Options
• Check all the available options on this section.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Post Options

This section include options to select sidebar, excerpt length and readmore text. You can enable/disable category, author, posted date from this section and option to hide or show featured image plus prefix in archive pages.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Post Options
• Check all the available options on this section.
• Click Save & Publish to save the changes.

Footer Options/ Copyright Text

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Footer Options
• Check all the available options on this section.
• Click Save & Publish to save the changes.

Menus

This theme comes with two menu locations. Primary Menu and Social Menu

Primary Menu

• This menu will appear on Main menu for the site.
• Create a menu and add the items on the menu.
• Set the menu on the Primary Menu.
• Save the Menu

Social Menu

• Add the link for social Menu(Use Custom Link to create this menu)
• In custom link, add link for Facebook Menu(www.facebook.com/username)
• Add the menu and follow the same steps for twitter, Instagram.
• Select the Social Menu for this.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Widgets Area

Go to Appearance > Customize > Widgets

• From Widgets, go to Sidebar
• Select the widgets or items to be kept on the side bar like Search, Pages, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Categories, Archives, Text, Calendar, etc.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Custom Widgets of theme

Add these available widgets on widget area to make the awesome sites. Go to Appearance > Customize > Widget and add the widget on required widget area.

1. Blog Way: Author Profile

This widget is to display profile of Author in the sidebar. This widget includes title, page to select author details and image, facebook, twitter, linkedin, instagram, pinterest and youtube fields.

• Title: This is the main title of the widget.
• Author Page: Title, Content and Featured Image of this page will be used for Author title, Bio and Profile picture.
• Facebook – Youtube: These are social links of Author

2. Blog Way: Social

This widget is to create social links on the widget area. Set the social menus, that menu will appear with the help of this widget. In the above section, we have already discussed how to create the social menu.

Official Support

Hope, this will help to make the home page as demo.

If you have any further query, please use theme official support forum.